I’m going off memory so anyone correct me if I’m wrong.
In high school TA played the 4 and sometimes the 5. Someone who should have the ability to be a versatile player and could play the 2-4. Really good rebounder, good defender. Potential as a shooter is there. Didn’t shoot great his freshman year or last year. Can be a really great mid range shooter off the pull up imo. Needs to become more aggressive attacking the basket. Which he started to do against rice and A&M Corpus Christi before he got hurt. If he can up his shooting splits and fill in at the 2 or 3 he could be really good because there’s not too many guys guarding the 2 at 6’7" in college.
Chase is a better shooter and imo a better defender. Pesik uploaded clips months back of him playing at IMG and he would lock up the other team’s best player. I watched a bit of him against St. Paul VI and he can shoot and defend. He’s not taking anyone off the dribble here. He couldn’t in highschool unless the ball was swung to him and he already had the first step on a defender. He could make an impact for us next year if he can shoot and defend well. Big chest and shoulders at 6’6". Rumored 7’ wingspan.
Again I’m just going off what I remember. I’ve only watched McCarty for half a game and I haven’t seen Arceneaux actually play since Jackson State
Terrance has almost exclusively played the 4, except during his freshman year here, and has never really been a scorer. Almost every team he’s been on had a player with better scoring ability who carried the load. High volume scoring doesn’t come naturally to him.
McCarty played the 4 during his junior year in high school in Texas but switched to the 3 at IMG last year. McCarty carried his team offensively as a junior, but at IMG, he wasn’t a primary offensive threat. He shot a lot of 3s as a junior.
The difference between them is that Terrance has a better foundation in everything but isn’t great at any one thing. Developing into a great ball handler in the future isn’t out of the question for Terrance, while with McCarty, I don’t think his handles will ever be special. McCarty’s ceiling is more of a 3-and-D player with just okay handles.
McCarty isn’t a hesitant shooter, whereas Terrance is. Excluding practice rumors, Terrance has always been a good rebounder, while McCarty did not have good rebounding numbers at IMG/AAU. The bigger physical difference is that Terrance bas way better bounce. Then Terrance has the two-year edge of being in the program.
In summary, Terrance probably has higher potential and a wider range of possibilities for development—he could become a driver, cutter, 3-and-D player, stretch 4, off-the-dribble shooter, etc. However, he hasn’t yet reached his potential. McCarty, on the other hand, will likely be a 3-and-D player, and his readiness for that role is still to be determined.
This is something I’ve always wondered about with Houston. Do they push them too hard for too long where guys bodies start to wear down during the long grind of the season.
I’ve got to fifth third arena really to see the coogs pre game shoot around and it’s more like pre game rugby game or something. Most other teams are dry when the game tips, whereas as Houston has guys in full dripping sweat at the tip.
Accidents & injuries are apart of the game tho so it’s tough to say, but I do wonder if any injuries are attributed to how hard they practice and play.
I personally doubt it. But the intensity pre game does stick out no doubt
It’s always been a topic of conversation here and something I’ve wondered about. It’s hard to say without being apart of the team and seeing practice along with everything else nutrition, rest, travel, little injuries in practice.
But I have become annoyed in the past because sometimes some things we do seem unnecessary. When we practically had a rotation of 7 guys in 2022 Kelvin had the team run suicides the day before we played 1 seed Arizona. Seemed a little unnecessary at the time. I get there is a culture but eh.
He talks about players using the day UH sets as rest to rest. And how that can contribute to not having their best year. I’ll say I always felt and performed better with some more rest. Maybe I’m just an average Joe but a little mental and physical break kept me sane.
Last year J’wan had a busted knee from the start, Arceneaux was just an unfortunate circumstance, who knows what happened with Tugler. He had a little foot pain for a little bit and then it became broken. Shead was also just bad circumstances. Last year the only injury we could really say was overuse was probably Tugler and maybe Shead because he had some games where he had to wrap his shin.
But I also don’t have any room to say anything. I peaked at little league champion.
I doubt it, we went without injury for the 1st 6 years, like no major injuries at all…and got really unlucky the last 3 years … if you just look at the last 3 years it looks like we have alot of injuries , but if you scope it out to sampson tenure, the total isnt that bad, almost like the universe evening out the 1st 6 years
Players being pushed hard, both mentally and physically, is the UH culture and what players signed up for when they come here. To be developed to be the best they can possibly be and to have a shot at possibly continuing at the pro level. Each will have a shot. UH is putting guys at a next level with consistency now. And players also have an inner circle family for life.
I don’t believe the players are pushed too hard. I suspect they welcome it. These are extremely driven individuals, no doubt 110% all in with guidance to better their individual talents/skills/,BB IQ to get to next level.
A college schedule is tame compared to next level schedules.
I suspect most every player recruited these days to UH has a belief that they have next level potential and coming to UH is their best chance of doing so. Players absolutely know what they signed up for.
It worked well during our AAC days since most of the time we can bully ball or out muscle the other teams in conference.
Many of our starters capped at 30 minutes of game play when we were winning by big margins most of the time except Memphis or Cincinnati (Cronin days).
Now that we are in the Big 12, we are not blowing out teams by 20+ every week and the starters are playing a minimum of 30 minutes since games are closer.
We have to rely on depth more and we played more OT games last season than I can remember.
You are wrong. And a quick google search would have told you that.
LJ and Jamal were the only two that averaged over 30 minutes per game. Jamal’s minutes were actually down versus last season. Same with LJ when he was at Baylor.
I love Tugler’s game. Francis breaks out more from last year to this year than he did last year from the previous year. Night day improvement is coming for Mr. Francis. I think the game has slowed down for him. I also think the refs will respect him more, and thus call less touch fouls on him.
Our bigs, I wouldn’t replace one of them from a player from another D1 team including McFarland. He will play a big role as well. Our front court may be the best overall top 4 bigs in the country.
I had a chance to talk to Francis before last season, and he said that he lacked confidence the previous year. Trying to pump him up, I reminded him that his shot blocking stats were off the chart for that year per minutes played.
I had another chance to talk to him about a month ago, and he seemed way more confident, and that he had been working on his offensive game, particularly in facing up his defender, and that he was looking forward to this season.
It’s not only minutes per game u have to factor in practice minutes and how strenuous they are plus travel etc, I think it can definitely lead to overuse injuries, they appear as freak or rare injuries to us but could be caused by overuse
I agree. Some on here seem to think that cutting a players min/gm back from 32 to 27 will make a difference. I’m not so sure. Game time seems like just a small subset of a players activity.
Practice routines can be moderated and controlled.
A player who plays 25 min is more likely to recover faster than he would if he played 37 min. It is about the physical and mental strain of logging more game minutes.
This affects potential injuries and the ability to have quality workouts moving forward.